Ben Crump
Role at the time: Civil-rights attorney
Statement summary
Civil-rights attorney Ben Crump wrote on X that Porter's family says there is no proof he fired at anyone and that DHS has offered no evidence for its claim that the agent acted in self-defense. He said the family and the community deserve answers.
“DHS claims the agent acted in self-defense but offers no evidence to support that. Keith's family and the community deserve answers as to how this tragedy transpired!”
Crump's own post on X, about a week after the shooting, responding to DHS's self-defense account.
Why we used this label
Reference point: whether the off-duty ICE agent was justified in fatally shooting Porter. Crump disputes DHS's self-defense account as unsupported and asks for answers, so we used Challenged the characterization. We did not use Condemned because the post does not itself call the shooting unjustified or wrongful; it questions the evidence behind DHS's description. Evidence: primary, Crump's own post on X.